Comments on: PREGAME NOTES: Pagan getting closer to rehab assignment, return to big leagueshttp://blogs.mercurynews.com/giants/2013/08/11/pregame-notes-pagan-inches-closer-to-rehab-assignment-return-to-big-leagues/
An inside look at the San Francisco GiantsSun, 04 Dec 2016 15:46:00 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.3By: Eleutherohttp://blogs.mercurynews.com/giants/2013/08/11/pregame-notes-pagan-inches-closer-to-rehab-assignment-return-to-big-leagues/#comment-420041
Mon, 12 Aug 2013 06:07:43 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/giants/?p=14126#comment-420041Woj … I feel your pain and your envy, too. I’ve also stated several times that BOTH 2010 and 2012 were cases where everything that had to go right DID go right. Well, just as you don’t roll five sixes in Yahtzee very often, nature has a way of statistically correcting aberrations.

The Giants absolutely, 100% rely on EVERY cog in the machine working at full capacity. The loss of Pagan alone doomed them this year just as the loss of Posey in 2011 doomed them. Now they enter salary arbitration hell with some players, have a lot of slap hitters that wouldn’t play on any contender, Zito is done, Scutaro will probably revert to his .278 non-slugging career average, and they’ve got some discipline problems with Panda and Gaudin.

Oh well. At least we’ve got those 2 trophies. Some teams wait 50 years for one. However, as a fan, and a realist, it’s never pleasant to contemplate the prospect of many years of poverty to mediocrity dead ahead. I don’t see how it’s avoidable given both the lack of position players in the farm system but, more importantly, the lack of trade bait in the starting line-up and especially the bench.

The Giants illustrate how misleading team batting average is. When you’ve got a poor slugging average (they’re third worst out of 30 MLB teams) you MUST get 12 hits to get 4 or 5 runs. As Earl Weaver used to say, a three-run homer beats the crap out of a sacrifice bunt.

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Mon, 12 Aug 2013 03:39:45 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/giants/?p=14126#comment-420013Old Bud blew through our lame-o lineup like the first ballot Hall-of-Famer he’s sure to be.
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Mon, 12 Aug 2013 00:58:33 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/giants/?p=14126#comment-419963Hopefully the Twinners can take 5-of-7 against the Tribe and White Sox. At least 4-of-7. IMO, we should be rooting for the Mets to beat the Twins on their 8/19 game.

Sorry, The White Sox are a sunken cause. They seem to not even be done shedding players, and their schedule has too many games against too good of teams IMO. The #4 pick is the best-case scenario as I see it. Behind: HOU, MIA, and CHW.

We really need MIN to finish “better” than us. Mets, Phils, Cubbies, Brews, Padres, Rox, Angels, and Blue-ish J’s better get their acts together. That’s 12 teams we are “competing” with… Well, only 9 teams if we account for HOU, MIA, and CHW being so bad they will better us for the best picks.
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Call ’em up! Play the kids! Let’s take our chances.

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Mon, 12 Aug 2013 00:57:26 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/giants/?p=14126#comment-419962Another boring game by the slap slapper happy Gnat hitters.
The way Sabean built this jokester of a team offensively is a joke. Nobody seems to have any power and I yearn for about every opponent’s lineup over our own.

Last year is officially a fluke. MLB conventional wisdom is that you need to be top half of the league in HRs to win titles and make playoffs and the 2012 Giants were simply a flukey fluke to that rule for 1 year only – 2012. You need only look to the powerful 2010 Giants for a team that had power and pitching and won.

This team needs a significant rebuild starting with DFAing or trading all the no power slappers clogging this lineup. And BTW – Pill is an answer for 2014 not a question. Torres/Blanco/Sanchez/Q/Noonan/Perez = no thank you for 2014.

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Mon, 12 Aug 2013 00:34:28 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/giants/?p=14126#comment-419960We are now tied for 5th with cubs, twins, and phillies in Baseball’s version of “Who’s the biggest Loser.”
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Mon, 12 Aug 2013 00:22:03 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/giants/?p=14126#comment-419959NSA
Nice try. Work is restricted :=/
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Mon, 12 Aug 2013 00:19:08 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/giants/?p=14126#comment-419958I Pablo archives all his before and after pictures. Both his weeknesses are just as important

Conditioning
Strikezone discipline

*weaknesses

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Mon, 12 Aug 2013 00:17:50 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/giants/?p=14126#comment-419957Another thrilling game today. Outside of Miami, there are few teams where you, as a fan, might as well leave the ballpark when the lead expands to more than 3 runs. When they’re clicking on one cylinder like a freaking lawn mower, 3 runs is an ambitious game total.

I hate to be this blog’s broken record but a lot of guys are simply reverting back after career seasons last year or are not going back to where they were (like Timmy). It took every bit of Marco Scutaro’s .362 with the Giants last year to get them that title. Some fans need to take a statistics course and learn about the concept of AVERAGES.

Giants in 2014, even with Pagan healthy and hitting .290 will be around .500. I can’t believe they even THOUGHT about trading Pence. How many career .285 hitters with some HR power do they have? He’s a Torres, a Blanco, with a player to be named later thrown in.

You are dreaming if you think we can trade Flablo for a power hitting outfielder AND a quality starter. That’s like thinking we can get Frank Robinson and Sandy Koufax and only give up Bob Uecker. 🙂

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Mon, 12 Aug 2013 00:04:10 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/giants/?p=14126#comment-419955Matthew Lesko:
Okay, fine. You can’t figure out that none of the salary numbers given on B – R would ever even add up to a $xxx.75M total. Don’t worry about the accuracy of your source. Don’t worry that Cot’s front page has what is “accurate” info/details. Or that CBS Sports, ESPN, Schulman, and many other sports media sources all specified it is a five-year extension worth $112.5M.

They tore up the 2012 contract terms to add his full no-trade clause in. But he kept the 2012 salary of $15M. And he got an additional $5M signing bonus (to make it a $20M total for 2012). You see that $5M bonus anywhere on B – R? No, I don’t think you did.

My advice would be to check your source. Sometimes they are wrong. It happens. Apparently, you seem unwilling to accept this is a possibility. At least, do the math on B – R, the salaries (even if you use their “2010-2017” term does not and cannot end in a “.75” according to their own salaries specified. lol.

All I’m saying is that I try very hard to use accurate salaries. And, if I want to use salaries on my roster projections, I want to know I am using the most accurate info possible. Otherwise, what’s the point? And hopefully, at least some on here, will know I am not giving bad/inaccurate info.